Thursday, August 06, 2009

"Cans Without Labels" Live Pitch at Comic Con

Here's some presentation art for a George Liquor cartoon.Drawn by Jim Smith and I; colored by Kali.I tend to really get into the characters when I draw them. I feel their angst.Then I act them out for people - to see which gags go over and which don't. Here's a sample of me acting out a cartoon this year at the comic con.

39 comments:

are you going to be doing George's voice from now on ( should the show get picked up )? You're very very good at it! Almost makes me think all these years that Pataki was impersonating your version of it.

I loved the pitch! I would like to see more innovative shows on adult swim. Superjail is very lonely on that channel.

Hi John.Since I wasn't able to go to SDCC, (I'm from Colombia, South America) it's awesome that I've being able to watch you pitching. Really funny, can't wait to see a new George Liquor episode finally released. (BTW, please say thanks to Mark for recording it.)

hey john I'm not sure if you can answer this because as you said everything is hush hush but do you think if the show gets picked up that you would be doing the animation in house using programs such as flash etc., or do you think you will have to outsource it to another studio?

I have watched it three times already and I must add that it's surprising how much of your movements resemble the movements in your finished cartoons.

To me this is one of the funniest plots you've come up with recently. Well, I don't really know if you came up with it recently or it's some old idea you have drawn now, but anyway it's superb. It reflects real human behaviour yet at the same time it's very cartoony. There should be quite an audience for this.

Oh man, I hope somebody has the brains to pay you a crapload of money to make this cartoon and keep em coming!!! when a storyboard pitch for a short has more laughs than a half hour simpsons/family guy/south park episode, you know something is wrong with the network executives who aren't green-lighting this stuff! this would be perfect for adult swim! i know a lot of their audience is family guy stoners or whatever but they deserve some awesome cartoon drawings and funny jokes too!

You should do a pitch video of your own, with a clear shot of you in front of the boards (I'm thinking like the Baby Weems segment from The Reluctant Dragon, or somehting you might see on a DVD extra from Pixar or the like). This video is good, but you can't get you and the boards at the same time, which I think is a HUGE part of a pitch.